Hi, Ben Laenen wrote: > I care about whether the database will still > be "clean" after a possible change (meaning, properly licensed).
The current license is anything but "properly licensed". If you take a *strict* view then we're all violating CC-BY-SA every day by not listing every individual contributor, and we're also violating the database rights of the operator of the database because nowhere does CC-BY-SA grant you the permission required by European law to use someone else's database. If you take a *relaxed* view then all our data is un-protected anyway because facts are not copyrightable. > If that can't be worked out there will certainly be no-one making use of > OSM since it'd be a legal mess. I hope that I have shown that we're in a legal mess already, and basically have been there from day one. This still doesn't mean we have to change the license; we could simply choose to keep the mess we have. But saying that our data was "properly licensed" at the moment is really very misleading. Bye Frederik _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
